Happy Birthday Medicare!

Fast Facts on Medicare

Tomorrow marks the 45th anniversary of the implementation of Medicare (July 1, 1966), following President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the landmark health care program on July 30, 1965. Despite Medicare’s great run, House Republicans voted almost unanimously to end it in order to pay for tax more breaks for Big Oil, hedge fund billionaires, huge corporations, and corporate jet owners. And every single GOP presidential candidate also supports this disastrous plan to end Medicare. Here are some fast facts on the beloved program that the GOP has devoted itself to destroying:

Only a day before he is set to close out his show with Fox News, Glenn Beck takes a swipe at Obama by comparing him to an abusive boyfriend: “Think of your country as your daughter….He is dating our country, and he’s abusing it.”

A year after a scandal rocked Kabul Bank that beget almost an almost $1-billion loss, Afghan authorities arrested Sherkhan Farnood and Khalilullah Frozi, the ex-Ceo and the ex-president, respectively. The investigation into the country’s largest private bank has unearthed “a culture of cronyism and questionable banking practices among the country’s small political and financial elite.”

Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported on some explosive comments made by the husband of Michele Bachmann, Dr. Marcus Bachmann. Dr. Bachmann is rumored to practice so-called “reparative therapy” to “ungay” homosexuals at the clinic he and his wife, a top GOP presidential contender, own. Check out today’s MSNBC report on the growing number of questions surrounding the Bachmanns and their clinic: